John Searle’s theory of social ontology posits that there are indispensable normative components in the linguistic apparatuses termed status functions, collective intentionality, and collective recognition, all of which, he argues, make the social world. In this paper, I argue that these building blocks of Searle’s social ontology are caught in a petitio of constitutive circularity. Mo...

We describe the construction and use of SeaLiT Ontology, an extension ISO standard CIDOC-CRM for modelling integration maritime history information. The ontology has been developed gradually, following a bottom-up approach that required analysis large amounts real primary data (archival material) as well knowledge validation by domain experts (maritime historians). present specification ontolog...